Talk:Linda Darling-Hammond

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I represent Dr. Darling-Hammond and have posted a comprehensive bio on this page today. When this page was originally created, it was done by someone who posted entirely on and clearly cares strongly for Teach for America (TFA). I respect that passion, but Dr. Darling-Hammond'spage is not the approproate place to wage a debate on TFA. Out of dozens of books, hundreds of research publications and uncountable articles, this is *one* report, conducted more than three years ago. Dr. Darling-Hammond's work — which encompasses not just teacher education, but school redesign district redesign, principal preparation, leadership education, and assessment -- was not accurately represented by the previous post. While there is no objection on anyone's part to a debate on research, this debate belongs on the TFA page, not Dr. Darling-Hammond's page. That research publication is only one of hundreds of projects Dr. Darling-Hammond has published on and devoting her biographical page to it is not appropriate. I have included the citation for that research on this page, along with the citation of other recent research projects. --Barbara McKenna; June 6, 2008

Subject-approved bios are great, but they are not justification for deleting relevant information that is backed up by sources. I encourage people to harvest important sentences from older versions of the article. --RedHouse18 16:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Approved Copying from her website The person who copied it claims it was approved by Darling-Hammond. Does this make it ok? --RedHouse18 16:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)